The Washington critic., 1887-09-16
CASTRO NOBIIC GOSSIP.

Prevailing Prices OF tho Good Things
Ht Centre Market.
Sales at the Centre Market this morning
we're not large, although the market was
well stocked with all sorts of provisions
and marketmen expect large sales to-mor-
row morning.
MEATS AND VEGETABLES.
The meat market Is fair both In sales aud
prices. The prices for choice cuts, as fur
nished by John Il. Kelly, stall 629, are:
Nice porterhouse steak, 20 to 25 cents per
p,unf; tenderloin, 90; prime rib roast, 20;
quarter Of lamb, 90; lamb chops, 20 to 20;
corned beef, to 12i, and nice beef tongues,
Weighing six or seven pounds, 60 cents
each.
Vegetables are plentiful and generally
good. There are more tomatoes than last
week srd they eau be had for 80 cents
peck, while the little yellow ones for pre-
serving cost 10 cents more. Good white
potatoes, while not over plentiful, are not
dear, and cost from 25 to 40 cents peck for
the best. Forty cents is the price for fine
large Eastern Shore sweet potatoes. TUT
nips are so cents a peck, Lettuce and cab
bbge from TO 10 cents a head and very
nice.
The celery is particularly fine at so to 10
cents dozen. White onions, so cents and
yellow onions so cents peck. Beets and
carrots, b cents u bunch, are all cheap.
Green corn Is from 10 to 25 cents q dozcu.
There is plenty of 1t, but not so good as 1t
was earlier in the season. String beans are
very good and worth 40 cents peck, and
large lima beans 10 cents a quart. Pump.
bips OF the best quality bring cents a
pound.
FISH, BUTTER AND EGGS.
Fish are prime, and probably as many In
the market as at any time this season. The
prices, as furnished by Charles II. Javins
& Sons, are as follows: Sheepshead, l5c.
a pound; halibut, 20c.; salmon, 35c.; fresh
cod, l2c.; salmon trout, l2ic.; Spanish
mackerel, 3Oc,; porgies, 12c; sea bass, 15c /;
lobster, 15c.; scallops, 20c., and shrimp, the
first of the season, and very nice, 3jc.; white
perch are Csc. bunch; pan rock aud boil
Ing rock, the same price, while Norfolk
spots are 10 cents higher.
The butter market is steady and prices
not so high as they will be this fall. Phila-
| delphia print Is worth 40c. to 45c per
| pound; Elgin, 35c.; State and Western
| creamery, 30c., and cooking, 25c. Cheese
| 10 selling at 20c. a pound and eggs &c a
dozen, though the price Of the latter varies
| a great deal from day to day.
FRUIT AND GRAPES.
Fruit is nearly all Of the best quality, but
not very plentiful. Peschea are scarce, as
usual, ordinary ones being s. 50 to 80 per
box, while the large white.heath peaches
ire very scarce at "a to "a 80 per box.
Pears are cheaper aud more plentiful, the
est being worth from 10 cents to 81 peck.
Crnteloupes are nearly gone and those in
market very poor. Grapes are plenty aud
cheap. Niagara and Delaware, two pounds
for n quarter, aud the best Concord three
pounds for a quarter, or even cheaper than
that II bought by the basket. Oranges are
poor and cost ton much for the kind, 40 tt
80 cents dozen, being little more than
such dry fruit is worth.
The apple crop Ia good, and by tomorrow
the m.rket will be well filled with good
ones a. 10 to so cents peck. Two dollar
altck Is the price of plums, with very few
TO be had at that or any other price. Fine
large, yellow bananas are worth from 20 tt
80 cents dozen. Lemons are worth from
25 10 80 cents, and New York damsons frou
81 so to Il. 10 per peck. The best mangoe
for preserving, OF which there are grea
many very fine ones In market, being s.
hundred. Cape Cod cranberres OF the bes
quality bring Is cents q quart.